Sophocles Antigone: A Greek Tragedy

Antigone is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles, which is the third of the Theban plays, but was the first written. The female hero of the story shows intense flashes of leadership, toughness and doesn’t easily fold under pressure. Standing up against the ruler, also her uncle Creon. Antigone, although discouraged by others along the way, especially with even living after her mission is complete are slim. The more important fact of her being a female emboldened by a strong no holds barred belief of injustice and wrongdoing. King Creon’s view of law as civil contrasts from Antigone’s which is where problems occur. Creon rules with an iron fist which means he gets his way regardless of differences of people below him. This leads to tragedies …show more content…
Her loyalty to her brother and her newfound hate towards the gods caused tension. Antigone`s tunnel vision took her off track of what she should have done. Antigone knew because of her being a women that going against the authority was wrong yet she chooses to follow her heart and what she perceived as correct. Antigone as a whole represents someone’s ability to fight for what you believe in even if death is involved. Antigone wasn’t wrong but that doesn’t mean that good will always beat evil, which is a prime example of her death with Creon still being alive. Both Creon and Antigone are humbled by how they’re beliefs affected them in the end. By Creon Being a lonely king with a family with they’re blood on his hands and Antigone dying fighting for what she believed in. Which leads to believe that there was a tragic hero. Although in each characters point of view they did was right in there heart. There mindset was positive and what they believed to be the best thing morally which contrasts greatly between them. Which does not mean that because a character is evil in sense does not mean he is a hero in his own